BBC / ITV To Launch New Streaming Rival

"Research with the British public shows that there is a real appetite for a new British streaming service - in addition to their current subscriptions," he said.

That phrase "in addition to". I'm not sure they quite get it. I could conceivably be interested in a cut-down streaming and radio service that was cheaper and provided a limited range of things I was actually interested in. But I don't even have a TV licence now (don't panic - I don't watch broadcast TV or iPlayer). So anything that's a paid add-on on top of that is a non-starter for me.

And frankly, I don't really trust the BBC anyway. I'm happy with subscriptions to Stratfor and a mix of other paid or free services.
 
h4rm0ny said:
"Research with the British public shows that there is a real appetite for a new British streaming service - in addition to their current subscriptions," he said.

That phrase "in addition to". I'm not sure they quite get it. I could conceivably be interested in a cut-down streaming and radio service that was cheaper and provided a limited range of things I was actually interested in. But I don't even have a TV licence now (don't panic - I don't watch broadcast TV or iPlayer). So anything that's a paid add-on on top of that is a non-starter for me.

And frankly, I don't really trust the BBC anyway. I'm happy with subscriptions to Stratfor and a mix of other paid or free services.
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They mean alongside their Netflix/Amazon Prime sub.
 
People are being driven to "other means". Its the same with the football being split across multiple providers, there is only so much disposable cash people have for this stuff. I used to pay the full sky package, Netflix, prime etc and it was a crazy amount per month when you added in bt sport and premier sport etc to get all the games.

Spotify is a good example of how to combat the illegal stuff. Offer a good product at a reasonable price and the majority will pay.
 
Err no, thats what the license fee is for and in truth i only pay that to support the radio side of things and the odd gem they produce now and then.
 
So the "TV Licence" money they take off me will be ring-fenced and not spent on this new venture i assume?

Can see lots of people being ****** off by this, myself included.
 
I like the idea of old BBC content being available to watch but don't see why it shouldn't be covered by the licence fee. The shows are already made, the service is already running (iplayer) and they've already digitised most of the content for their failed BBC store venture

Don't watch itv so not fussed about that but did notice you can pay for an itv channel on fire tv's, god knows why you would.
 
I like the BBC, the license fee is entirely worth it in my opinion though I tend to watch BBC 2, 4 and radio 4 almost exclusively.

I wouldn't, however, be prepared to pay a monthly subscription on top of the fee for this service If the subscription was the only cost and it was the same as the annual fee I'd be okay with that.
 
"43% of all homes which use the Internet are interested in a subscription to BritBox"

They didn't ask me!

Would love to know who and exactly what they asked to produce this incredible statistic from.
 
Only pay for Netflix and onedrive.
No TV licence, no iplayer (150/yr is not worth it vs Netflix)
I'm not ever paying for endless multiple TV services when I watch so little of any one

Its concerning how fractured this could become. Netflix losing marvel content due to Disney. It can't fracture forever but more big y players may want to go it alone as time goes by
 
TriedandTested said:
"43% of all homes which use the Internet are interested in a subscription to BritBox"

They didn't ask me!

Would love to know who and exactly what they asked to produce this incredible statistic from.
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I bet its nonsense that figure. Or a biased sample

Britbox sounds like some from the leave brexit campaign.it's content spanning East enders to Jeremy Kyle and loose women
 
robfosters said:
Does this mean all the old top gear specials will be taken off Netflix? :(
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Are they not on Dave's UKPlay app?

I think someone is making it up with that 43%. Or what they really asked is "would you rather have 1 place to find all the content you'd like to watch on-demand?"
 
ci_newman said:
A lot of BBC content is already on platforms like Netflix. I guess they want to move that content from Netflix and onto their own subscription model, that they can use internationally. There might not be much appetite for it in the UK but I bet there's a massive international market for it.
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Britbox has been available in the U.S. and Canada for a while. I think it's a great idea internationally, but like you I think this will fail in the UK as a lot of it is available on catch-up services like iplayer anyway.
 
To make it worthwhile, they would probably premiere any half decent output on the streaming service and leave the license payer to get it six months later.

No thank you very much.
 
I don't see why licence fee payers should need to pay for this service showing the same shows and presumably stuff from their back catalogues?

It could be useful as a cheaper option for people who don't want a license but would be happy to pay every so often to access some BBC content - in the same way as people sometimes subscribe then cancel a NowTV subscription etc..

It could also be useful perhaps to generate some revenue from overseas.

I think they've been a bit slow off the mark here, they've had iplayer for a while now, they've got the big back catalogue of shows, a bit more investment in iplayer + some overseas sales and they could have perhaps been in the position Amazon Prime is in currently. I suspect they'll need to invest a bit in tech talent if they want to pull it off - this is something that is quite natural for both Netflix and Amazon but which might well be a bit alien for the BBC.
 
If they launched a service letting people worldwide watch fresh British content then I'd sign up in a second, but it doesn't look like that is what they're planning.
 
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